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I went on to do various projects in GIS and data management in petroleum and also utilities and defense (real-time tracking along trunk lines and shipping lanes, published in GISworld) before returning to my alma mater. Munro Engg. had a GIS front-end to data warehouses finally hired me - imagine my excitement in not only finding a like-minded company, but also meeting again the old Enigma crew! That company went on to be bought by Landmark, except for the non-petroleum part who tackled the US market – having been eaten alive by the likes of ArcView and MapInfo, the entire team ended up at AutoDesk. As Munro had http hooks well before anyone knew or cared what the internet was, thus was born AutoDesk’s internet application MapGuide (AutoDesk went on to purchase another Canadian liquidation, Vision which became Design for data management).
Meanwhile back at the ranch 'n "gooddol' Tey-xas", petroleum Argus was killed by Landmark, who was commissioned by a British firm to create an Geographic Info System (GIS) front-end to their petroleum Oracle database - OpenExplorer is the product I supported until joining ESRI, creators of ArcView GIS used here. That product sells the most runtime ArcView for ESRI, and inspired most competitors in that space to adopt a similar front-end – most companies also demand ArcView for the ease of use in Unix and NT, and data interoperability through shape files, which became the format standard for GIS data through its open data specification.
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